12th European Individual 2011

The 12th European Individual took place 22nd March - 2nd April 2011.
Vladimir Potkin edged out Radoslaw Wojtaszek, Judit Polgar and Alexander Moiseenko on tie-break (performance) after all finished on 8.5/11. 11 players finished on 8/11 including Vallejo Pons, the in the news Sebastien Feller and Peter Svidler. The event was a qualifier for the FIDE World Cup with 23 places. 8 players qualified on 7.5/11.
It now seems that Potkin, Svidler and Mamedov were already qualified so 26th place or better qualified players and so there was good news for McShane, Fridman and Motylev. But it does seem to have been a bit of a shambles with both the method of performance calculations and who was already qualified being unclear to the participants which was obviously a bad thing as they didn't really know what they had to do during the final round.
Chess Vibes via a report of Macauley Peterson on the spot seems to have sorted it out.
Ian Nepomniachtchi, David Navara and Fabiano Caruana all missed out.
This page has results, standings and related stories.

ChessVibes says:

The confusion was about the way the organizers calculated the Performance Rating: besides removing the highest and lowest rating for everyone, also the score against these two players was removed, which led to different results than many had anticipated. (One effect of this calculation might be that a win against the highest rated opponent works out negatively.) And so until minutes before the closing ceremony started, some players thought they had qualified for the World Cup, but then found out they hadn’t.

However, according to our information Potkin, Svidler and Mamedov had already qualified, and so the numbers 24-26 are also in: McShane, Fridman and Motylev. They all have the right to play in Khanty-Mansiysk in August-September of this year, together with last year’s qualifiers Nepomiachtchi, Jobava, Timofeev, Efimenko, Lysyj, Almasi, Tomashevsky, Rodshtein, Salgado Lopez, Pashikian, Movsesian, Drozdovskij, Babula, Vorobiov, Akopian, Nisipeanu, Alekseev, Socko, Grachev and Halkias.

Vladica Andrejic pf Perpetual Check: Has an article on Serbian on this believes that four players had already qualified: Potkin and Mamedov via European 2010, and also Svidler and Jakovenko via rating, So Ivan Ivanisevic may have made it too.

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